Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting

Caravaggio Amor Vincit Omnia painting
Raphael Saint George and the Dragon painting
Democrats and Republicans have already drawn battle lines over matters from tax cuts to education to some sort of power sharing in the Senate, where the two parties are split, 50-50. "It is quite often not easy to find consensus ... but we must try," Senate Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi declared. To underscore the central bank's iron determination to keep the economy from sliding into recession, the Fed's Board of Governors also cut the more symbolic discount rate on Fed loans to banks by a quarter percentage point to 5.75 percent. It said it was prepared to cut that rate further to 5.5 percent if regional Fed banks requested it